Cool. Best news for me, seeing as I can’t download, is they’re putting the last 3 releases and this one on cd…
Interesting…
I can download, albeit slowly, but there’s something about the packaging, liner notes, etc. So I may be taking this route.
i’ve never heard the first set, can anyone comment on the stash and bowie? bowie clocks in at 19 min - i imagine there’s some interesting stuff there.
I think it’s gay that you spend 12.95 for FLAC for shows such as 12/29/97 and then months later they decide to release it on CD also and provide sound check jams as a bonus for only CD purchasers. If I’ve already purchased the download I’m not gonna shell out $23 for a couple bonus tracks. There’s just something about that concept that smells. It’s cool for this Murat release b/c it’s a new release and I can choose which format I want to get it in. But for past shows it sorta screws the person that already spent money on it.
Just my 2 cents.
Trust me… this isn’t the first time LP has done something “stupid”.
edit-
this is what I was thinking of…
http://ohkeepa.proboards36.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1165195057
These choices of media are exactly what LP should have done from the beginning. Hopefully discounts will be applied if you have already downloaded the show you’re purchasing again on CD…
$23.00 apiece for both 8/13/93 and 12/29/97 in CD form. That includes shipping and some bonus material. 3 CDs for each releases.
Ponders actually purchasing both releases
46 bones will get me some really good music, most of which I have not heard in its entirety. I’m just a sucker for actual CD releases I suppose.
Doesn’t $23 bucks for these releases feel a bit steep to anybody?? I somehow doubt that they’re going to do the same amazing job they did with the Island Tour/Live Phish series when they package these.
Oh, and, this show is really great, but I would have rather they release something else from this tour. Or at least release more than one show at a time.
That’s less than $8 per CD. Shipping is included in that $23. I agree that the packaging is going to be about as minimal as possible (I’m assuming), but who knows. But still. I’m strongly considering it.
we’ll once somebody gets it, let us all know how the packaging is. But yeah i haven’t bought a cd since i got Nye 95, but that is a great release, in fact i think i may just go throw that puppy in
am i the only one that purchased that and has only listened once?
the mikes ive listened to maybe 3 times but everything else not so much.
why no listen much, neck not like show?
why neck, why
The “Mike’s” from NYE95 is fantastic, but that show has a lot of other highlights, too. “Jim.” “Drowned->Lizards.” “Maze.” “YEM.”
reba too
See, everyone fluffs that “Reba” but I can’t get into it. There are parts of the composed part that are botched, which I’ll admit don’t really bother me that much. But the jam…everyone says the jam is among the best…it’s great, but when I think of spectacular, awe-inspiring “Reba” jams, this one doesn’t come to mind. It’s not even in my top-10 favorite versions.
we’ll it’s still a good reba, i’d tag it
Here is a new Jim Pollock print made for the Murat release!
Anyway, let’s get down to discussing this show.
I would go so far as to say that '93 was THE pivotal year in Phish’s history. You can look backwards in time from '93 and while you do see them jamming, it’s not nearly to the extent it became even in '93, let alone after. I can’t think of a single version of a song before then that is stretched out to the extent that '93 and '94 jams were. And the Murat show on the summer '93 tour is one of those pivotal times when you could tell the band ‘got something’ and just went for it.
Obviously the big draw here is the second set, and since I haven’t given the first set a good listen in awhile, I’ll just focus on this set. Take a look at the number of songs played. This is, I’m going to guesstimate, the shortest second set in terms of number of songs played for all of summer '93. This gives you a good idea of how they took the songs out there. For many, this was and still is THE Bathtub Gin. It’s always fascinating to me to hear the first time they took a song out there, and for all intents and purposes this was the first jammed out Gin. Very much in their '93 style, it slides into a raucous Ya Mar. Then, a historic Mike’s with no Weekapaug. Aside from those two big jams, the rest of the set and encore crackles with that inspired lunacy that makes older Phish exciting.